Re:Astronomers see a black hole awaken in real time
by mr_mitm on Wednesday June 19, 2024 @11:11AM
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I don't get it. Isn't precision always relative? Who cares how large the numbers sound in certain units?
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Re:Astronomers see a black hole awaken in real time
by oh2aa on Wednesday June 19, 2024 @12:25PM
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No, precision or error can measured in absolute or relative terms. In either case, the unit is irrelevant, you could say +/- "0.000001 big bang timespan." The point is that in the realm of human experience, that tracking error is quite big.